Meanings of wryneck in English

The wryneck was thought to build the nest, and hatch and feed the young of the cuckoo.

The wryneck and the woodpecker may be mentioned; and a still better instance is afforded by the small, gem-like kingfisher

During the talk that followed I asked him if he knew the wryneck, and if it ever nested in his orchard.

He, however, treated her as the harbinger bird, wryneck of the nightingale, sure that Aminta would keep her appointment unless an accident delayed.

All at once he remembered that he knew, or had known formerly, the wryneck very well, but he had never learnt its name.

I have lingered long over the wryneck, but have still a story to relate of this bird-nota fairy tale this time, but true.

Another pair of photographs from the brothers' behind-the-scenes series features a further hide (it allowed the Keartons to see the truth about the wryneck's beak).

Those wrynecks, by the way, are abundant but hard to see.

The chief food of the wrynecks consists of ants, which they pick up with their delicately tapered tongues.